Re: dbms/rdbms software & its environment

"Ruud de Koter" <ruud_dekoter_at_hp.com> wrote in message news:3FA0CEBA.654D6439_at_hp.com...
> Hi there,
>
> mountain man wrote:
> >
> > There have been a few astute posts here and there
> > to the effect that notwithstanding the benefit of the
> > development of "the relational model" for databases,
> > for the last 20 years database theory (a la Date for
> > example) has remained database centric in its thinking.
> >
>
> You 're doing the same trick again: need to get the computer environment
into
> database theory, 'cause it 's incomplete without it.
>
> Gosh: need to get the organizational environment into computing theory,
'cause
> it 's no use without organization (wasn't it you writing about
organizational
> intellegence).
>
> Yeah: we 'll have to get the society as a whole into the organizational
theory,
> 'cause the organization does not function in a vacuum.
>
> Your approach will lead you to a theory of everything. There are, at least
to my
> knowledge, no good examples of theories of everything. That is simply to
> complicated.
>
> One of the first steps in theory-building is choosing a limited field of
which
> you can build a good (simplified) model. Try and make that step.

Stolen from sci.math:

FoxPro Programmers Who Have Read Bad Popular Science And Decide That Now The Time Has Come To Present Their Final Theory To The World. Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 17:36:40 CET